CVE-2008-4619
The RPC subsystem in Sun Solaris 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request to procedure…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 12.0%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 3.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- 1Public exploitsMetasploit, Nuclei and Exploit-DB
Description
The RPC subsystem in Sun Solaris 9 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) via a crafted request to procedure 8 in program 100000 (rpcbind), related to the XDR_DECODE operation and the taddr2uaddr function. NOTE: this might be a duplicate of CVE-2007-0165.
Public exploit
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Show the exploits2
Exploit-DB1 entry
- Solaris 9 PortBind - XDR-DECODE 'taddr2uaddr()' Remote Denial of Service (Exploit-DB entry) (opens in a new tab)
EDB-ID 6775dos, solarispublished 17 Oct 2008Verified
References tagged exploit1 reference
- 6775 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
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Timeline
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Published
- 16 years later
· 16 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 12.0% · top 3.8% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
10
- ADV-2008-2945 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081029 Re: CVE-2008-4619 / milw0rm6775 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 4440 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASONx_transferred
- 6775 (opens in a new tab)exploitx_refsource_EXPLOIT-DBx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081031 Re: CVE-2008-4619 / milw0rm6775 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20081028 CVE-2008-4619 / milw0rm6775 (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 32475 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- 200412 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUNALERTx_transferred
- sunsolaris-rpc-dos(46057) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- FEDORA-2008-9204 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2008-4599 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2008-4619)Record last updated .